Governor Eliot Spitzer, who got elected using promises to clean up corruption in Albany, has managed to make matters worse in the two years he’s been in office. He has used the NY State Police to investigate and harass political rivals. He has proposed drivers licenses for illegal aliens. He has verbally brow beaten folks who disagree with his positions. Now he has been accused of having been a seemingly frequent client to a multi-state, high-priced call girl ring—very much like the one he prosecuted and vilified when New York State Attorney General.
Some of this morning's headlines:
Prostitution scandal threatens N.Y. gov Understated. But I have to wonder what AG Eliot Spitzer would have said and done if it were Gov. George Pataki entangled in this case.
Prostitution link tarnishes Spitzer's "clean" image (Gee, ya think?)
Another tri-state governor in scandal This article recounts the scandals of NJ’s Jim McGreevy (D) and Conn’s John Rowland (R). No mention is made of the problems faced by NJ’s Jon Corzine. Probably because no legal action has been taken…yet.
I’m really beginning to take the story of chemicals in our water more seriously.
Drugs found in watersheds of 28 areas
Please note:
New York City: 16 (including atenolol, trimethoprim, carbamazepine, ibuprofen, estrogen, acetaminophen and diazepam)
Northern New Jersey: 13 (including acetaminophen, carbamazepine, codeine, dehydronifedipine, erythromycin, lincomycin and sulfadimethoxine)
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Philadelphia: 63 (including amoxicillin, aspirin, atorvastatin, bacitracin, diclofenac, phenytoin and fluoxetine)
Philly gets its water from the Delaware, I believe, as do Trenton and Camden, NJ across the river.
The high number of drugs found in the water supply might explain a lot of the bizarre behavior that goes on in those cities.
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